A Brisk wind flowed throughout the lane that I laid my footsteps in. My skirts blossomed in the cool breeze. I was a lost soul, living in the streets of a cold city. A city that was being towered over by a ruler that felt nothing for the people that made his country prosper. I was forced to live in the streets, with nobody to care for me. I wandered the streets looking for money. Looking I guess isn't the best word to use there, more like taking without asking. Stealing.

I was a thief, a pickpocket, and a good one at that. One of the lowliest forms of living that was taken on by the ones who saw it fit to risk there life for the nothing that they had. To take well earned money from a person who had so little already, that was cold. So I took from the people that wouldn't notice if their money was missing. I wasn't afraid of being caught, I had nothing to lose, or so I thought. I wouldn't mind having my heart shot through by an arrow that was made for me. I didn't care.

The lane that I walked in was scattered with empty baskets, closed down booths, and stray coppers that were left out on tables. My lone footsteps echoed on the high walls of the merchant houses. Moonlight filtered in through a cloudy sky.

Merchants had closed early for the storm, afraid that a light summer rain would damage their wares. A cool drop of liquid ran down my face, as I gazed at the sky.

My name is Thele. I am seventeen. I live in the city of Jordhiem. I know no past of mine, and I plan for no future

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The stream of water rushed through the middle of the dark green forest. A hot sun glared down at it as if to say, "Go away." The trees hummed as they were tossed in a light breeze.

I sat on the edge of a rock, it course surface pressing on me. My feet rested on the sandy bottom of the stream. I crinkled sand in between my toes, and arouse dust clouds. My mind was elsewhere, not in the beautiful haven that I came to so often. Nobody ever came out this far out of the city, they all had work to be done. But as a thief your life was flexible, you never had anything you had to do, or anywhere you had to be.

I liked it this way.

But sometimes I wished that I would have something to be proud of, something to look forward to everyday. Or someone.

My parents died at an early age. I was left to find myself a life, nobody wanted an extra mouth to feed, an extra body to clothe, and extra person to get in a way. But I lived. I await every darkness, to find the light that I was once in. But now that I am getting older, I could get a job. Work. That would be hard for me. After living half my life as free as anybody has. But it has been hard, nobody to help me. Nobody to look after me. Nobody to care for me. I am fearfully alone.

I reached up and pulled my light blond hair out of the tie I had it in. Thick strands of my hair cascaded well beneath my shoulders. I peered at the person I saw in the stream. I wish I could have denied something that I wanted to say to badly. I don't know who I am.

A girl with blue eyes, and a face scrubbed with dirt that's what I am, I thought to myself. I threw a rock at my lovely portrait in the water. It shattered.

People have never looked at me for who I was, but what I was. I never liked it. I laughed, and slid my feet out of the water. I could get married, that would make me not have to steal, and I would live in a house, and pay taxes! I laughed again, Why on earth would I want to pay taxes.

But, I haven't ever left Jordhiem, it was the only city that I had ever known. This was the farthest I have been out from my life long home. Peering at the trees on the other side of the brook, I wondered what was behind them. I could just leave, nobody would miss me. Something held me back though, something that wanted me to stay in this place that I hated. But didn't I also love it in a way?

This was all too confusing. I want to leave. But this is my home. What will happen to me if I leave? What if I never found anything beyond the trees? What if it just stopped and opened into a vast plain? Sweeping in all directions, including the one that I wanted to do?

I need to leave.

Day started to drip down the sky. As night rose from its slumber. Stars winked at me and urged me to leave this place. I need a change. Yes, yes, I do.

The soft humming of the trees dulled to a whisper. As everything seemed to want to talk to me. I did not want to talk back. But they seemed not to care. This is my life! I wanted to yell at them.

Slowly I placed my shoeless foot in the water, and stood up. My other foot following in after it's mate. Would I ever get to find another place like this one, to feed my thoughts to my surroundings. To let nature comfort me, in such a way nobody has.

No, I don't think I will. I will leave, go back to the town, and buy a horse. Not that I new how to ride very well. And I would just take the road, in which my heart wanted to go.

I think I had enough money. 5 silvers if I remember correctly.

I dug around in my pocket, and fished out coins. I would go back to the place were I stored the rest of them.

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I slid onto my horse, with the merchant holding the reins. He wished me a safe journey, and went to see to the horses that had just returned.

My life was going to change. I wanted to have it different. I was going to have it that way.

I kicked my horse into a nice walk as we sauntered out to the road. Here was my first decision, right or left? I took my path to the right, something called me that way. It scared me, but it almost made me feel as if something was going to be waiting for me on the other end.

Moonlight filtered on the leaves that crunched beneath my horse's feet. Amerens, was her name. I big horse, that was a full color of white. Her eyes showed an intelligence that would capture me of I looked into them.

The woods became thicker, as I tried to slide through unnoticed. Every bit of motion from the trees caught my eye.

Oh why did I have to make this journey at night? I thought angrily to myself. There can't be anything that was more stupid then the thing that I was doing right now. I felt like that I was leaving something behind. That with leaving my home, I was cutting something off. I wanted it back, felt as if no one could help me.

What if the next town that I was going to, was going to act like the same way? I would leave that was simple enough to figure out. But wouldn't I just be running from my fears?

An river flowed by the road that I was on, I was curious to see that islands marked the middle of the river. I found myself wondering what was on them.

What could have been the thing that I dreaded most was my curiosity. It never had done anything good for me. Always getting in trouble for it. I never want to go back to the life that I had before. I never want to see the faces of people that once laughed at me, or spit in my face. I never wanted to trust anybody ever again.

And so begins my new life. A life that I have never known before, where I don't know what will happen to me, ever. I wanted to have this so long ago, I wanted to have a freedom with myself. It's all my parents fault why did they have to go and die!?!

A tear stroked the side of my cheek, it's warmth frightening me. Once again I was alone. And I don't mean physically, for my beautiful horse, was right beneath me. But I was alone in my world. And I don't see how I was going to be with somebody ever again.

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hehe, this is really short I am wokring on adding more just don't have the time right now with all the projects and and stuff bleh! Review it pleeeeease! not that I like to beg or anything hehe, Thanks

~Thayana